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Re: Go-http-client

From "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+19772@Torrens.org>
Subject Re: Go-http-client
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.networking
Date 2024-02-23 10:15 +0000
Message-ID <5b37253c5anews*@Torrens.org> (permalink)
References <5b2b4df63fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <5b369f6248News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
Organization Torrens

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In article <5b369f6248News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
   Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> The trickle continued, some days far outnumbering other requests.

> But I have found a way to stop them! I added to my ./htaccess file...

> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "=Go-http-client/1.1"
> RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

> ... now returns 403 Forbidden. Stopped 260 in 12 hours yesterday.

> This certainly works on PlusNet - may or may not on other ISPs.

> Martin


https://user-agents.net/string/go-http-client-1-1

gives info on this. But these requests may not be evil. I would guess
mostly neutral.

There are s many bots and crawlers these days log files are of little
practical use!

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Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 10:25 +0000
  Re: Go-http-client Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 11:47 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 12:27 +0000
      Re: Go-http-client Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 12:59 +0000
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  Re: Go-http-client Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-31 15:18 +0000
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  Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-02-22 09:53 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+19772@Torrens.org> - 2024-02-23 10:15 +0000
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